@Hello Bob how are you doing

Absolutely. He never forgot a thing.

And to be fair, if you watched interviews with him when he was younger, he was always like that, rambling about whatever it was that was on his mind.

Yup

Yeah, harmless, almost invisible....good values?

!a R

Too right !

Peter O'Toole passed away a long time ago, sunshine.

that laugh is so adorable!

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Right you are! And I hope you see or have seen "Orson Welles and Peter O'Toole on Hamlet" also here on KZfaq or really any of O'Toole's interviews.

He was, indeed, born to play Lawrence. There were many talented actors available at the time, yet if anyone other than him had been cast, the film wouldn’t be the masterpiece it is today. He absolutely made the movie.

Totally

The greatest interviewer of all time.

Never was a truer word spoken about peterno body will do it bette rip

Well said. A magnificent film. I saw a remastered edition on the big screen in the mid 80’s and am yet to have that cinematic experience matched. His portrayal of Laurence is truely iconic in its true sense. Omar Sharif has said in interviews that O’Toole made him. “Becket” is also a great film.

Lucky was I to have met him in Dublin in an after hours club . . .never forget it. He talked about “Kate, the only woman I ever loved outside my missus.”

@@melatomic I saw the restored version in abt 89 and I just saw the 4K version and it looked awesome in 4K, the clarity, the colors, the music and sound, in my opinion, despite the smaller image it surpassed the theater experience in '89!

Yes, O'Toole was robbed! He definitely deserved one for Lawrence and in my opinion a couple of others as well.

Only Best Picture Oscar film that had no women.

@@johnzaccardi526 wow!

Agree to the T!!!

No longer rare, almost extinct.

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He could’ve made millions recording audiobooks, especially for children’s fairytales. No better voice in the world than his.

I could listen to his voice all day.

Very good story teller!!! I could also listen all day to all his stories!!! ♥🌹♥

The cancer was brutal. Hard to believe they're the same exact age.

Alcohol

And the energy too…you can see in his eyes the energy he had as a young man.

Amazing man

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

Pity the Academy didn't agree.

Agreed.✨✨

Wonderful movie!! Inspired performance!!1 ❤

Peter O'Toole's role of Lawrence was a masterclass in acting. David Lean was a master filmmaker. Perfect cast.

@James Henderson That's a matter of opinion. I disagree with yours.If you watch and study the film and his performance then you might see the resonance. We agree to disagree.

James Henderson Curious- is casting black and multi-racial actors as Washington and Hamilton racist? Let’s worry about real racial inequality that effects us every day and make real change.

Exactly why the BS academy never gave him an Oscar. Only a token one later.

definitely

Very appropriate

My favourite as well

mine as well. my number one film of all time

My favorite of all time too! There never has been a man more beautiful than Peter O’Toole in that role. Took my breath away.And he continued to.

Beautiful appropriate quote. There has never been an actor before like him or shall there be again. Perhaps that's a good thing, because they don't seem to make the caliber of movies now that actually require a person be able to act, to transform themselves from the inside out. His talent would be wasted today.

So erudite!

Such humour

Lots of Peter O’Toole on KZfaq- a good one is “acting out loud” - that voice!

Indeed ... what great stories!

They just don't make them like that anymore. Interesting raconteurs, humorous, self-deprecating and endlessly fascinating ... RIP beautiful Peter O'Toole

Peter O'Toole played the same character King Henry II of England in these two different films and was nominated for best actor for both. His performance in Lion in Winter was better than the winner that year Cliff Robertson. In 1962 he should have won best actor for Lawrence of Arabia instead of Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird. But my own favorite in 1962 was Robert Preston in the Music Man but he was not nominated. My own personal favorite Peter O'Toole performance was his nominated performance as a drunken Errol Flynn TV performer in 1982's My Favorite Year. It was a fantastic comedic performance. But he lost that year to I think Paul Newman's best performance in The Verdict and the winner that year Ben Kingsley in Gandhi. O'Toole was given an honorary Oscar later for his whole of his career. He got a final and 8th nomination a surprise for O'Toole's work in a small independent film in 2006, 24 years after his last nomination in 1982. He lost again that year. For the Irishman O'Toole bad luck all around.

Iooyuuii ml upon a day after

It was Lawrence of Arabia and T.E. Lawrence that drew me to tour Jordan and found his name is still revered throughout the country.

you must have seen it at the uptown which if, of course, where i saw it. 3 nights in a row

I watch it every time it plays, usually on TCM. I am mesmerized each time!

cool

King Hussein spent so much time on the set he fell in love with an English telephone operator called Toni Gardener who he married and became Princess Muna, the current king's mother

What a marvellous Interview! 💚 💚 🍀

I've read it twice. Stunning book. Huge hearted man

Oh! Thanks for this tip.

It’s good to see how much he mellowed out in his later years. All that drinking did almost kill him - he had a major health scare in the 70s that forced him to quit. It’s clear that quitting did him a lot of good, and the passage of time did give him quite a bit of maturity. Here he seems far more grown up and at peace with himself than he ever was in some of his older interviews. Lovely to hear him acknowledge how fortunate he was to have achieved what he did. Considering this was one of, if not the last of his public appearances, it’s great that he went out on top.

He has two autobiographies out,...I think it's a series with title "Loitering with Intent".

He is Irish..not English.

A beautiful intelligent Irish gentleman,as was Richard Harris .

David Moore one of my favorite films of all time! So many great lines! My husband had never seen it and we watched it three weeks ago. Sill delightful!

One of my favorite movies!!

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Funnily enough, I have enjoyed his interviews more than his acting. Not that the latter is anything but excellent...

The good news is there isn't going to be any pints in heaven. You see, heaven is a clean place.

No doubt all the angels must be drunk with the best celestial Guinness and with Peter and Richard Harris sharing their incredible adventures when they were mortals. Heavens must be a fun place with those two unique men.

Hell raiesers of huge talent

@@daphnethurlow5388 the Rat Pack,, before the rat pack

Burton, Burton, Burton ❤️

Oh, my - I have seen Lion in Winter & Lawrence more times that I can count, but I would love to get my hands on a copy of Becket

So do i

@@AidaJof .Me also !!

@@AidaJof try Amazon?

@@daphnethurlow5388 Ahhh, but of course! Thank you.

The first time I saw Peter O'Toole in the movies was when he played the decadently-immoral Roman emperor Tiberius in Caligula.

My 3 fave O'Toole films are "The Ruling Class," "My Favorite Year," and -- although it's a totally stupid hunk of fluff -- "High Spirits." Not a great movie, but I loved him in it.

Same, for all your comments.

At one time, in the 1980s, our local cinema was showing the restored version of Lawrence of Arabia in 70mm. You could see the grains of sand in the desert. It was amazing.

@@shawni321 I’m yet to experience a better cinematic experience ( the remastered version )

The run-ins with David Letterman were always classics.

Very true...tho him and Harris,Burton and micheal caine were seen as rebels in their time ...films like this sporting life and Saturday night Sunday morning and also the advent of the Beatles because they spoke like northerners and it creates a change and inspired people that didn't talk like a BBC radio announcer to use their own accents ...and it gave the films a real grittiness and authenticity....it was big change .

Except that Peter was already ill and was puffy probably due to medication. Also maybe a little Botox around the eyes...

Miklós Andrássy yes!

Couldn't agree more! 👏 👌

Now the host interrupts the guest every 10 seconds.

The interviewer had a voice second to none

Wonderful!

What a joy to see Osborne and O'Toole at the top of their game. A delightful, albeit poignant reminder of all that we had and all that we have lost.

@James Henderson They were all Brits; from the British Isles. Connery was Scottish, Caine was a cockney Englishman, so what?

I TOTALLY agree with you Arou. 👍

@@idleonlooker1078 i am Irish, not a citizen of the British isles

@Rob S learn a little, i live in the Irish Republic, on a land mass or island called IRELAND, i don't care who my neighbours are. i know who i am

@Rob S think whatever you want

Yes!!!❤❤

I have never seen a more beautiful man than O’Toole as Lawrence of Arabia!

True

As the Spanish say oto'OLE !

4:47 that laugh is just great. As is his whole body language. The way his eyes practically bug out of his head when he repeats “Of a feature?” at 4:44 shows just how alert and in the moment he really was.

Lawrence! The greatest

O ‘ Toole’s performance in Lawrence of Arabia was, many agree, one of the greatest film performances in the history of film. No doubt the character Lawrence is immortal and, Peter O’ Toole having made it so, is equally immortal.

@@jimtruscott5670 My guess is that not many people outside of Britain globally, and especially in the United States when this film was made, even knew who Lawrence of Arabia was until Peter O'Toole immortalized the character.

@@user-DrJoe-Future Quite likely true. I first saw the film in 1962 ,age 20, and with three years of college education,and had never heard of him until my father( b.1906), raised in Cornwall, told me about him before going to see the film. Still one of my all time favorite films and my copy of Seven Pillars of Wisdom sits right now on a bookshelf about eight feet away !

@@jimtruscott5670 I saw the film in 1962, age 12, in New Jersey USA, and have the Seven Pillars of Wisdom somewhere here in my office mess.

You are correct. Actually, all young people should work on speech. Unfortunately our government run schools have abandoned what should be a fundamental cornerstone of education, along with all great classical literature of Western Civilization . American parents must demand a return to quality of education for our young, and not allow them to be merely propaganda mills for political interests.

From Leeds, not a posh place, especially then.

@@garymorgan3314 All time GREAT.

It’s clear that in his later years he really mellowed and gave up his recklessness, as he is very mature and collected in this interview. Fortunately, he became sober after his drinking habits almost killed him in the 1970s, which probably helped. You can see a great deal of wisdom in his eyes, as he learned so much from his experiences. And it’s wonderful that he had enough perspective to feel and express gratitude for the wonderful career he made for himself.

Can you elaborate the part with Hepburn. I'm out of loop about this story..Thanks

Most of his drinking stories were exaggerated. He certainly did drink a lot along with other actors of his generation when he was young, but pretty much gave it up in the early 80s. His smoking was probably a bigger problem since he never gave that up.

@@Mahalakshmi-Khan O'Toole was pissing in the sink when Hepburn arrived.

@@dennman6 According to Anthony Quinn, Barrymore was fond of pissing in sinks also, looks like he took some bad habits from Barrymore.

There was no toilet in the stage area. Just the sink